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Source: New York Public Library: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The overarching result of African migration during the slavery era was an "American" culture, neither "European" nor "African" created in a political and economic context of inequality and oppression. The African contribution to this new culture was a towering legacy, hugely impacting on language, religion, music, dance,
art, and cuisine. Most importantly, an enduring sense of African-American community developed in the face of white racism.

Explanation:
Over the course of 200 plus years, a new culture came from the African slaves to the Americas. As they were stripped down of their religions, music and dances, arts and food, they began a new culture.  Their language changed, as well as their religions and beliefs.They were now African Americans, unequal and oppressed by the white people of America. From slavery, these African Americans created a culture based on what they had left.

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Source: Nun, Nathan. 2008. The long-term effects of Africa’s slave trades. Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (1): 139-176.
Herbst (1997, 2000) also focuses on the importance of state development for economic success, arguing that Africa’s poor economic performance is a result of postcolonial state failure, the roots of which lie in the underdevelopment and instability of precolonial polities. Herbst (2000, chaps. 2–4) argues that because of a lack of significant political development during colonial rule, the limited precolonial political structures continued to exist after independence. As a result, Africa’s post-independence leaders inherited nation states that did not have the infrastructure necessary to extend authority and control over the whole country. Many states were, and still are, unable to collect taxes from their citizens, and as a result they are also unable to provide a minimum level of public goods and services.

Explanation:
This document shows that a long term impact of slavery was the political and economic instability and weakness of Africa. It explains that this is a result of the lack of development during the colonial times. The reason why Africa was not able to fully develop is because of the Atlantic Slave Trade which pitted African tribes against each other and broke apart the nation. This was never really fixed and the Americas just let Africa's problems be Africa's problems. So, this caused major issues in the way this country was run and it damaged their economy. These problems persist today in Africa causing them to be a very undeveloped and poor nation.

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“I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of Europe, but I do know well that these two products have accounted for the unhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been depopulated
so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has been depopulated so as to have the people to cultivate
them.”
Whenever the Americas were discovered their was new riches,spices, and tons of other things to be extracted from the land but without workers that was not possible. Europeans brought people of their own to cultivate the land but their wasn't enough. They needed people to work the lands with the lowest form of payment so they could make the most profit. Slaves was the solutions to these problems and they got them from Africa. They would have to work without having to be paid and do whatever they were ordered to. Europeans took as many people as they could from Africa, depopulating it instantly and populating America in order to do all the dirty work for them.

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Source: John Barbot, "A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea"in Thomas Astley and John
Churchill, eds., Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1732).
As the slaves come down to Fida from the inland country, they are put into a booth, or prison, built for that purpose, near the beach, all of them together; and when the Europeans are to receive them, every part of every one of them, to the smallest member, men and women being all stark naked... each of the others, which have passed as good, is marked on the breast, with a red- hot iron, imprinting the mark of the French, English, or Dutch companies, that so each nation may distinguish their own.

Explanation:
The immediate impacts to how these people were treated and changed. Their minds, their beliefs were torn from them, they were now property and treated like it. They were branded, beaten. They were stripped of everything they knew, and were forced into becoming something different. These Europeans, these people used them as a resource, as something that could be traded.

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If at any one time of my life more than any another, I was to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery that time was
during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey. We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or
too cold. It could never rain, blow, hail or snow to hard for us to be in the field…. The longest days were too
short for him, and the shortest nights too long for him…Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in
body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the desire to read departed, the
cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; behold a man
transformed into a brute…..

A immediate impact of slavery was the poor treatment of African Americans. The document which describes the life of Frederick Douglass explains how bad they were treated. It says they were for to work throughout all the weather no matter how cold it was or how hot. He also describes how he was broken in body,soul, and spirit. These were all immediate effects of slavery. In order to have control of over slaves, slave owners broke them as a person. Slaves no longer had the desire to learn how to read or to learn how to do anything at all. This was all because of how they treated them.

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Source: “6 Ways Slavery Still Negatively Impacts Black People”, Atlanta Black Star, 2013.
The diets of many black people who in live in the Diaspora are a direct result of slavery. The slave masters generally consumed the lean and fleshy parts of farm animals, and left the scraps for the enslaved. Enslaved Africans were forced to incorporate those leftovers – such as chitterlings, ox tails, tripe, pigs’ feet, cow foot, and other bad foods – into their daily meals. Those unhealthy foods are still part of the diets of many black people today. They are harmful to the body and are the cause of chronic illnesses that plague our communities including strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.

Explanation:
We see in this document that the slaves were not treated very well by their masters and therefore they were not fed very well either. The slaves were seen as property not as people, so to the Americans it didn't really matter what they were fed, which the document explains when it says that they were fed scraps. These enslaved Africans, over time, got so used to eating these foods that they became incorporated into their diets even after the slave trade ended. This food is apart of the African American culture. However, these foods are not the best for their bodies. They cause illness and diseases as stated in the document above. So, because of how slaves were fed in the past, they are predisposed to illnesses due to the diets that were forced upon them.

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During slavery, people were beaten, their cultures broken and forcefully changed. They were brought to the Americas in order to create a new nation, a new order. Throughout this troubling time, the Natives and Africans were highly affected by the Europeans coming to the New Lands. The Europeans pitted tribes against each other in order to bring slaves over and break up the nation of Africa. Slaves during this time were not seen as people but rather as property and were treated inhumanly. They were stripped of who they were and their spirits were beaten down.